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Researcher · United States Naval Observatory · United States

T. J. Rafferty

T. J. Rafferty publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Calibration and Measurement Techniques and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#904,954
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#247,796
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
31
Citations per work
2.1

What does T. J. Rafferty research?

Computational Mechanics: 33.3%Aerospace Engineering: 22.2%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 11.1%Instrumentation: 11.1%other fields: 22.3%33%top field
Computational Mechanics33.3%Aerospace Engineering22.2%Astronomy and Astrophysics11.1%Instrumentation11.1%other fields22.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computational Mechanics33% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation11% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe T. J. Rafferty's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Adaptive Optics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, On-Orbit Performance, Orbit Determination and Radiometric Calibration.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  2. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  3. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  5. Exoplanets21 topic
  6. On-Orbit Performance21 topic
  7. Orbit Determination22 topics
  8. Radiometric Calibration21 topic
  9. Spectrograph21 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics21 topic
  11. Wavefront Sensing21 topic
  12. GNSS11 topic
  13. GRACE11 topic
  14. Global Navigation Satellite Systems11 topic
  15. On-Orbit Servicing11 topic
  16. Sea Level Rise11 topic
  17. Space Debris11 topic

Where does T. J. Rafferty work?

T. J. Rafferty's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Naval Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does T. J. Rafferty have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 31 citations for T. J. Rafferty, ranking #904,954 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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